Alchemilla mollis

ALCHEMILLA mollis
Ladies' Mantle

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Type:
Perenial

Height: 12-24" (30-60cm)

Flowering Time: Summer

Flower Colour: Green

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Botanical Classification:

Class:
Angiospermae (Angiosperms)

Subclass: Dicotyledonae (Dicotyledons)

Superorder: Rosidae (Rose Superorder)

Order: Rosales (Rose Order)

Family: Rosaceae (Rose Family)

Genus: Alchemilla (Lady's Mantle)

Species: mollis (soft)

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Alchemilla mollis is a useful plant for almost any position in the garden, being happy in either sun or shade. It forms neat spreading clumps of soft, downy, pleated leaves and loose sprays of tiny green flowers. It is useful as an edging, particularly between a border and a path or gravel, and its flower colour blends in with most colour schemes, softening the harsher oranges and yellows. It is also useful for flower arranging, both for its flowers and leaves.
It is hardy to -15^oC, and self-seeds very willingly.
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Harvesting and Growing from Seed:

Seed Pod
There is no seedpod. The calyx enclosing the seed becomes brown and papery when the seed ripens.

Seed
The seeds are tiny brown pips held tightly in the tiny brown calxy. There is one seed from each tiny flower in the cluster.

Seedling
The seedling has the same three-lobed leaves as the adult plant.

Seed sowing and Germination
Spring: Seeds sown inside in spring germinated in 16 days. Seeds sown outside in spring germinated in 62 days.
Winter: Seeds sown outside in winter germinated in 94 days.

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	Seed Pod There is no seedpod. The calyx enclosing the seed becomes brown and papery when the seed ripens.
	Seed The seeds are tiny brown pips held tightly in the tiny brown calxy. There is one seed from each tiny flower in the cluster.
	Seedling The seedling has the same three-lobed leaves as the adult plant.
Seed sowing and Germination Spring: Seeds sown inside in spring germinated in 16 days. Seeds sown outside in spring germinated in 62 days. Winter: Seeds sown outside in winter germinated in 94 days.